Category: AI in news
Mar 08, 2024The Hacker NewsSecrets Management / Access Control In the realm of cybersecurity, the stakes are sky-high, and at its core lies secrets management — the foundational pillar upon which your security infrastructure rests. We’re all familiar with the routine: safeguarding those API keys, connection strings, and certificates is non-negotiable. However, let’s dispense with…
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Mar 08, 2024NewsroomNetwork Security / Vulnerability Cisco has released patches to address a high-severity security flaw impacting its Secure Client software that could be exploited by a threat actor to open a VPN session with that of a targeted user. The networking equipment company described the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20337 (CVSS score: 8.2), as allowing…
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VMware has released fixes for several flaws that together could allow attackers to execute malicious code on the host system from inside a virtual machine, bypassing the critical isolation layer. Some of the flaws are in the virtualized USB controllers, so they impact most VMware hypervisors: VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, and VMware Cloud…
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If you have been optimistically daydreaming that losses attributed to cybercrime might have reduced in the last year, it’s time to wake up. The FBI’s latest annual Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report has just been published and makes for some grim reading. According to the IC3 report, online fraud hit record losses in 2023,…
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Mar 07, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Web Security Threat actors are conducting brute-force attacks against WordPress sites by leveraging malicious JavaScript injections, new findings from Sucuri reveal. The attacks, which take the form of distributed brute-force attacks, “target WordPress websites from the browsers of completely innocent and unsuspecting site visitors,” security researcher Denis Sinegubko said. The activity…
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The US (269), Germany (267), and Russia (191) were the most infected (admin accounts created) countries in a list shared by LeakIX. They had 330, 302, and 221 unpatched systems respectively at the last count. “There are between 3 and 300 users created on compromised instances, usually the pattern is 8 alphanum characters,” LeakIX reportedly said. The disclosure…
Read MoreHow Public AI Can Strengthen Democracy With the world’s focus turning to misinformation, manipulation, and outright propaganda ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we know that democracy has an AI problem. But we’re learning that AI has a democracy problem, too. Both challenges must be addressed for the sake of democratic governance and public…
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A former Google engineer has been indicted for stealing trade secrets to benefit two companies in China. This case adds to a series of actions by US authorities to prevent the outflow of critical technological information to China. A federal jury in San Francisco charged the 38-year-old Chinese national, Linwei Ding, with four counts of…
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Mar 07, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Information Stealer Facebook messages are being used by threat actors to a Python-based information stealer dubbed Snake that’s designed to capture credentials and other sensitive data. “The credentials harvested from unsuspecting users are transmitted to different platforms such as Discord, GitHub, and Telegram,” Cybereason researcher Kotaro Ogino said in a technical…
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Mar 07, 2024NewsroomMalware / Network Security Threat actors have been leveraging fake websites advertising popular video conferencing software such as Google Meet, Skype, and Zoom to deliver a variety of malware targeting both Android and Windows users since December 2023. “The threat actor is distributing Remote Access Trojans (RATs) including SpyNote RAT for Android platforms,…
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